obscure

The special terminology understood among the members of a profession, discipline, or class but obscure to the general population; jargon.

"But make no mistake that this film is so obscure that it might not make a return of your capital, " he reminds fund raisers.

But nationalistic considerations should not be allowed to obscure the underlying impact that the proposed deal would have on consumers.

The QEMU documentation provides information on many obscure options, but you may be able to get by with just a few.

Singling out obscure radio stations for very specific criticisms of him, Grondona said he reads and listens to everything, all night long.

Who was really behind the small plane, red light flashing, that warned the kidnappers not to kill him on that day in 1973, is still obscure.

Something natural, as if being on the water were beyond his control, part of a gene passed on to him from some obscure hereditary pool.

"The fact that we have had this downturn doesn't obscure the fact that it's a very promising business model, " he said.

In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West's disease of the moment.

The glut of uprooted data may unwittingly obscure the fact that we are losing the systems of knowledge that enable us to make sense of it.

Even if it does, that should not obscure the fact that Mr bin Laden's infamy in the West is losing its power to inspire his own people.

And yet even with this obscure procedure over 20 percent of Californians have signed up to be organ donors, which is fantastic.

She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not herself know the secret.

After a few days he took it away, to an obscure refuge he had under the stairs, full of mops and buckets.

He was more than the usual number of obscure pains and aches, which he worries about a great deal.

It was, in its way, as surprising as if a live Tyrannosaurus had been found hiding in an obscure part of Montana.

"Using obscure names to avoid duplication of names or to be unique is not good, " he wrote in an e-mail response to questions.

These files are long, and the language is somewhat obscure, at least on the surface.

A cloth covered the lower arm up to the shoulder to obscure which hand might actually be connected to the body.

it is not like moss and ferns, can only be grown in the dark and obscure the corner.

For those of you who are a little perplexed, Japan Real Time explains why such a fuss is being made over these obscure elements.

Who would have thought a year ago that both men would be laid low by an obscure form of debt securitisation?

Obscure allusions to chess are fine; but it troubles me that anonymous oracles know more of my business than i do.

What troubled Inman most, though, was that Lee made it clear he looked on war as an instrument for clarifying God's obscure will.

Mr Casely, who said he could find no link to Prince William's bride-to-be, claimed John Middleton's origins were both "obscure and humble" .

If I had to pick one poster as the greatest of all time, it would have to be this gorgeous "Varga Girl" image from an obscure 1934 film.

If the shifts seem to leave the United States somewhat dazed, it is because what will emerge from all the ferment remains obscure.

I can only speak of attempts to throw light on psychic facts that obscure to me, of efforts to overcome therapeutic difficulties.

Toward the end of the disputation, Luther offered some theses which seem (in typical Luther fashion) nonsensical, or at least obscure.

But he had no sooner entered the next bend of that obscure and winding avenue than the most lamentable, lusty cries assailed him.

His method was always the same: using high-flown rhetoric and obscure language while dissembling and faking his way through life.

"How weird do they have to be suggest a second genesis as opposed to just an obscure branch of the family tree? " he said.

It might be buried in an obscure technical journal, in conference slides, or in a doctoral thesis tucked away in a university library.

In an industry that loves obscure acronyms, the framework for linking everything up in this way is known as IMS, TISPAN or NGN.

Public opinion is untroubled, or sees them as a mere irritant: an obscure, geeky sort of prankster.

Since we don't know if brief referred to an earlier style or what that style was, brief continues to be obscure.

It may be that Mr. Nolan is purposely making his story obscure so as not to distract from his phenomenal image-making.

Nor do lyricists "explain" their more obscure lyrics; if you have to ask, a song clearly is not meant for your ears.

"Weeds" obscure the text is well known, large-scale use unfamiliar tactics of "Weeds, " one of the reasons difficult to understand.

Scientists had not been idle, but the significance of their labours remained obscure.

This was the strategy of obscure bodies known as structured investment vehicles (SIVs) and conduits.

Father is an obscure, in a kind of aeriform in feelings, it is only with the heart that man can experience.

Here they are a completely obscure network of guys who do it for a few dollars an hour in a garret at night.

The supply of obscure films and music seems to be growing faster than people are discovering them.

It's too easy to get caught up solving an obscure technical problem, especially when you're a nascent technology startup.

If it was any of the other, obscure "little Europeans" mentioned for the EU presidency job?

Months of studying, learning hundreds of acronyms and obscure politicians' names to be able to answer tricky quiz questions in seconds.

We'll pick six winners to receive a signed copy of "It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous &Obscure. "

This complex treatment insures that the earphone chamber has no "ringing" which might obscure detail or add coloration.

I have no doubt often failed, and there are many things that are obscure though I have tried to make them clear.

If you've got a text that's clear, don't go looking for a more obscure text and try to illuminate the clear text with the obscure text.

The light of an obscure moon was just sufficient to render objects, though dim, perceptible in their outlines.

The problems of the South Korean model should not be allowed to obscure either its achievements or its continuing strengths.

Because of this, the meaning of the English poem is easy to understand while that of Chinese is quite obscure.

They might like him even more if they knew an obscure but intriguing fact about him: he actually practises what he preaches.

Some people come up with a plan, a business idea and attempt to follow an obscure path. And they often fail as well.

nor merely in the sort of obscure disciplines in which, for two weeks every four years, millions are fleetingly interested.

Freud's theory of personality structure had not taken on the shape when Hardy created Jude the Obscure.

True, a recondite book by an obscure professor wouldn't have made any difference if it hadn't caught the drift of public feeling.

So it is with the science of biological control in its modern sense. In American it had its obscure beginnings a century ago.

You know yourself how obscure Nostradamus 's writings can be.

Since the cost of digital distribution is almost zero, the thinking goes, cinemas ought to gamble on more obscure products.

The court referred to the concept of arra contractu imperfecto data, a rather obscure institution of Roman law (paras 44-55).

What was once just another obscure financial instrument is now a part of our daily lives.

Since the bearing to broad seal law compliance, but to be clever with allusions. Use less obscure obscure, purposive novelty love moving.

For all its cathartic importance, however, Mr Mubarak's trial must not be allowed to obscure the guilt of other former officials.

Not so very long ago, at the turn of the century, Google went from an obscure start-up to the Web's dominant search engine.

More obscure findings can fare worse: Germs, quarks, black holes, and continental drift were all once considered laughable .

" Another kind of view more obscure and in good faith: " you look very characteristics, future development must be very good.

Well, that's one way for an obscure person to go down in history.

Yet the indifference with which the news was received should not obscure its importance.

Your obscure procedure has secured the immeasurable treasure and ensures with leisure the enclosure of any possible exposure.

Suddenly dark clouds obscure the sky at the instigation of the imperialists Chiang Kai-shek betrays the revolution. A massacre begins.

Guangzhou's ambiguous city image, together with its obscure positioning, has resulted in its low awareness in the international community.

Much of the work on modern day pricing theory started in a still obscure field known as psychophysics.

With public ownership came greater reporting responsibilities, but precisely what Goldman is up to remains obscure.

How that might be done is obscure at the moment, for the organisms are still barely understood.

You remember this obscure connection between buckets, kicking, and dying only because humans are good at remembering things like this .

The party exiled him to that obscure city of Gorky, but his legend only aggravated, culminating in his release in 1986.

Do not clutter up the page with so many illustrations that you obscure the message.

Indeed, his only published fiction consisted of a few short stories and poems, mostly in obscure Paris literary journals.

Under these circumstances handing out Viagra is a bit like bombing obscure targets from thousands of feet.

Kronecker warned the editor that this immature and obscure article would kill the journal .

Once just an obscure statistical method, instrumental variables are now popping up all over the place.

For more obscure languages, it has released a "tool kit" that helps users with translations and then adds those texts to its database.

I don't wish to harp on it, but I must remind you that Griffiths is an obscure member of the Labour Party.

Modern administrative accounting is always connected with obscure phenomenon.

The volume of betting on such an obscure match forced Betfair to act, but Davydenko has his own theory to explain the irregularities.

There is indeed something spiritual in this place. and though it may forever be obscure to me. I cannot but be aware of its power.

It certainly sounds like an obscure theory has spawned some obvious generalisations.

Or do we refuse to let our "little handful of thorns, " our troubles, obscure the overwhelming abundance of our blessings?

In Brussels, native English-speakers are notoriously hard for colleagues to understand: they talk too fast, or use obscure idioms.

Review your subscriptions : Are you still getting subscriptions for some obscure hobby you were only interested in a year ago?

People feel obscure on conceptions, values and religious beliefs. Just like the newborn infants, everything is muddled .

Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure have served to enlighten meand to strengthen my conclusions.

Within the past couple of years, memristors have morphed from obscure jargon into one of the hottest properties in physics.

" He did not obscure, they have to robbery, theft, " stop at no evil.

Some obscure disease had taken the fire out of her figure.

IN AN old printing works on an obscure industrial estate in Hong Kong's New Territories a little bit of history is being made.

Rather, they deny that "God has an existence" . This obscure wording serves to emphasise the ambiguity in the concept of existence.

turning down an obscure street and entering an obscure lane , he went up to a smith ' s shop.

They cover most of the general themes of Nietzsche's mature philosophy, though often in highly symbolic and obscure form.

Four, traveling to the sun, had better wear hat obscure, and appropriate sunlight wipe some containing ketone sunscreen.

Perhaps, he adds, some of the more obscure antioxidants decrease in the body as we age, leaving us more vulnerable to oxidative damage.

The bottom line numbers obscure the underlying strength that is gathering within the U. S. economy. Once the U.

The heart, that obscure, celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming.

But neither can poor arguments be allowed to obscure strong arguments for a good cause.

Guava is an obscure tropical fruit that's subtly acidic, with sweetness that intensifies as you eat your way to the center.

Realize that teams usually do not fix problems that are too complex, too obscure, or are discovered too late in the product cycle.

Your obscure procedure has secured the immeasurtummyle treasure and ensures the leisure enclosure of any possible exposure.

That is often the fate of champions of obscure and oppressed peoples.

It took a long time to read this book, read again and again, obscure words and phrases quickly let me crazy.

For years, this software commons was no more than an obscure sideshow.

In a short time, Amazon has blossomed from an obscure dot- com upstart into one of the best-known names on the internet .

I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.

Other industries should be forewarned that they cannot be too small or obscure to escape the watchful gaze of China's overcapacity police.

However, the "events" in his work seem unbreakable whether these "events" can be withstood ponderation or not how obscure they are.

Photograph from upwind of the fireworks so that smoke doesn't obscure the explosions you're trying to capture.

The view into top management from the rank and file was just as obscure, Benioff knew.

The mechanism of bacterial drug resistance is still obscure, moreover different bacteria have it's special and sophisticated mechanism.

The doomsday scenario revolves around claims that the end of time will come as an obscure Planet X - or Nibiru - collides with Earth.

The writer became famous while most of his contemporaries were destined to be obscure.

These patients were to walk unescorted to an obscure destination and were not monitored by medical personnel at any time.

Libel reform may seem an obscure subject for an unpopular government to pursue with a general election looming.

All the talk this week from western majors about exciting cost measures should not obscure the fact that they are struggling to grow.

I'm currently planning a trip to Italy, and hunting down obscure and fascinating places to visit, like the "Tarot Garden" .

Intelligence officials believe the messages were passed from hand to hand repeatedly to obscure any trail back to his hiding place.

Exposure time on the cameras is set very rapid so as not to let in too much light and obscure detail.

There, hundreds of thousands of viewers watched him use an obscure racist slur to describe a cameraman working for his opponent.

He sought to obscure his lack of assurance by boisterousness, and his sense of latent inadequacy by occasional bullying.

"He was afraid that, from some obscure motive of propriety . . . she would bring Janet with her" (Arnold Bennett).

Since this was the era of "get big fast, " I worried about how small and obscure we were.

The reference she made to her friend, the poet, was interesting but too obscure for anyone to appreciate.

Furthermore, the ultimate cause of the disease remains obscure, which makes it hard to gauge the appropriateness of an intervention.

The NDF market would seem to some to be a slightly obscure arena.

Jude the Obscure, one of his masterpieces, has been studied from many perspectives.

But this shouldn't obscure the fact that Beijing has severely hurt its own credibility on human rights as well as other issues.

However all the talk about renewable portfolios, efficiency, andcap and trade tends to obscure the specific things that need to bedone.

The third, largest rectangle is an obscure painting-within-a-painting, reaching across the main picture.

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.

To confuse and annoy, there is nothing like swearing in an obscure foreign language. Try. . .

As a parliamentary candidate in his home town of Bristol, I was shocked at how obscure he had become, compared with Brunel.

However, NASA has tried their best over the years to blur and obscure many of these structures. Often their attempts are extremely blatant.

I was one among many women busy with the obscure daily tasks of the household.

However, its unsavory dealmaking should not obscure that in betting, correctly, against the housing market, it helped mitigate the crash.

In no flash, there came a man, of lanky build, of crooked teeth, who loomed large under the obscure moonlight.

A stock or a future may be in an uptrend or a downtrend, but the noise of its random chop can obscure its signal.

You may see yourself as very lowly , humble, obscure and consider yourself not a very valued member of the human race .

Relatively ineffective drugs will require effective salvage drugs, and this may obscure the true effects of a drug with regard to survival.

Today the agency's reports seem designed mostly to obscure the fact that we are falling behind the rest of the world.

Of greater concern are the smaller, more obscure firms which have no reputation to protect.

Thick enough to completely obscure the satellite's view of the planet's surface, the dust plume hides part of the Persian Gulf.

For the reason of deep embedding and complex tectonic condition, scatter and flow condition of the karst fissure water is still obscure.

If Linux becomes widely used, we'll probably switch to something else. Or at least develop an obscure distro that only we will use.

Allowing users to move toolbars around also provided the possibility for users to obscure parts of toolbars with other toolbars.

To obscure this reality through misplaced emphasis on an error in a nearly 3, 000-page rigorous document would be unfortunate.

It's also a risky area to try to implement on your own, because even a minor and obscure oversight can lead to serious vulnerabilities.

These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, but the history of a people.

But this acknowledgment cannot obscure the fact that markets do these things more efficiently and effectively than politicians do.

What else is going on unnoticed in obscure corners of medicine, industry, business that could eventually produce new shocks, if ignored?

Many households have gone broke in the attempt to provide every treatment, no matter how costly or obscure.

Not all talk is poetry. Conversation can be obscure. Sometimes you need to restate what you are meaning to avoid ambiguity and confusion.

More than a million ordinary families have failed to secure a single ticket even to the opening stages of the most obscure Olympic sports.

The second is more obscure and requires you to think about mapping to programming languages.

I haven't the slightest idea of what he means because his explanation is obscure to me.

They tend to be obscure, old-fashioned systems that are incompatible with Internet technology anyhow.

The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure.

English began as one of several obscure languages spoken by illiterate Germanic tribesmen in the mists of northern Europe.

And a final admission: not every feature of the low-carbon lifestyle is impossibly obscure.

Some of it is mere noise: obscure companies promoting their services and even more obscure bloggers sounding off.

The funds caught up in the scandal were hardly obscure.

Now we also have an obscure attitude toward history; and since it is obscure, I only copy it for the audience to think something about it.

Around the same time they appear to have signed contracts committing them to pay large sums to Mr Teixeira for purposes that remain obscure.

Jude, the Obscure is a masterpiece written by Thomas Hardy, one of the most famous English novelists.

He's the Marlborough Man, and he transformed an obscure cigarette into the best selling brand in history.

My heart is like the mottled walls large shedding bared ferocious obscure.

To designate free software whose license terms are a bit more obscure.

For reasons not very obscure, we always prefer in practice what might be called the cash-value expression to the 'indirect' metaphor.

There was an utterly obscure Germany one in late 19 century, which is I've never heard of before, it's unpronounceable.

Everybody wins if this guy exchanges information for a life sentence and then put in at obscure prison where nobody will remember him.

Spectacular gestures are meant to obscure the fact that fundamentalists are losing their grip on the Polish society.

This was noticeable only during an eclipse because the Sun's brightness would otherwise obscure the affected stars.

Now the Vatican has decided to shed some new light on this often obscure period of late medieval history.

A good first stop is Dragonfly, arguably Jakarta's most beautiful club lounge, incongruously located in a drab, obscure building.

The meaning of these dreams is that someone, something (possibly something as obscure as an emotion) is making you feel threatened.

the influence of air changes is obscure but indoor contamination concentration can be controlled by changing air changes.

The statement he made is obscure.

obscure; profound; difficult to understand. ADJ.

In practice, remembering the population of some of the more obscure cities in the game is far from trivial.

Applications should not intentionally obscure themselves under multiple or confusing names.

Clearly, Volvox evolved from similar algae that exist only as single cells, but until now the genetics of the process have been obscure.

But how the zone is to exit from its difficulties remains obscure.

These conflicting signals obscure the near term outlook a little, but, on balance, we think prospects for East Asia are getting brighter.

The world's main central banks should collectively buy mainstream securities (not the obscure assets as initially proposed under TARP).

As in the present case, contradictory results between the former and new diagnostic methods may obscure the correct diagnosis.

The idea of an obscure Chinese heavy-equipment maker buying the Hummer brand is entertainingly unusual for most onlookers.

Pomposity and long-windedness tend to obscure meaning, or reveal the lack of it: strip them away in favour plain words.

Although the Miro is by no means an obscure species, very little is actually known about its habits and lifestyle.

The report had been published in an obscure German journal.

It also means that the dragged object can't obscure the normal arrow cursor. The tip of the arrow is needed to indicate the exact hotspot.

But a surprising coalition now argues that the government must not obscure directors' identity numbers.

In many cases, simply removing a dependency on an obscure feature is more reliable than testing extensively to figure out which one to use.

however, the mechanisms of accelerated calcification in CRD remain obscure, and no therapies can prevent disease progression.

Integration and burn-in tests are a good place to capture those obscure integration problems often missed by lower-level testing.

It was amazing, indeed, to find how great a matter the life of the obscure dairy had become to him.

But I also wanted to follow the hundreds of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.

Fit the logo into a square layout if possible, avoid obscure layouts.

However, the homogenization mechanism and practical factors that influence the equilibrium potential remains obscure.

Yet the improving numbers obscure signs of underlying weakness that point to a tougher environment ahead for banks.

He was mysterious and his bookstore obscure. It was on the Rue Lagrange in Paris.

The PBOC is China 's Federal Reserve, meaning that Zhou is no obscure bureaucrat or renegade academic .

e. g. My nephew, Miss Austen, condescends far indeed in offering to the daughter of an obscure and impecunious clergyman.

photo or design does not use the drawing tools and photo black ink drawing, or obscure (design photo), has altered inadmissible.

His last novel Jude the Obscure, however, immediately aroused widespread criticism when it was published.

Farkash is Gaddafi's second wife, following an obscure and brief six-month marriage prior to the coup that brought him to power.

The second brain informs our state of mind in other more obscure ways, as well.

Now it was happening again, as the right wing used the excesses of the sixties to obscure the good done in civil rights and other areas.

Dathomir was an obscure planet in the Outer Rim Territories, located in the Quelii sector.

But the opacity of the language should not obscure the momentum behind a policy more simply described as giving power away.

Archer understood that he ran the risk of having his mandate withdrawn, and for some obscure reason he disliked the prospect.

Despite intensive studies, the reasons why these diverse and unrelated viruses have independently evolved oncogenes remains obscure.

They fear the new practice could unleash new plagues, by transferring obscure pig pathogens into the human population.

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slightly when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Despite a reputation for personal honesty, the obscure northern governor comes to power as a creature of Mr Obasanjo's PDP clique.

Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure and too complex.

This last question is based on a fairly obscure bit of Star Wars trivia.

Yet, for many enterprise executives, directors and managers agile is still confusing, obscure and not trusted.

Life is but a ship floating in an obscure, strange and insecure sea.

Humble beginnings became increasingly obscure within the unfolding of popular culture.

If all possibilities are valid, it may seem obscure the truth to keep things in being.

This or spacious, or unsuitable obscure culture consciousness just explains the modern culture and modern national cultural psychology.

The controls felt right pressed into these corners so as not to obscure the center combat area of the screen.

I wasn't there on a mission for a pregnant wife or girlfriend. I was preparing to test an obscure secret of biology: Men can lactate.

Granted the essay is about confluence of seeming opposites, but poetic license should not obscure important content.

While these subtle shifts between Slavic languages are a big topic in Kiev , they're pretty obscure if you don't happen to be Ukrainian .

Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.

Just five years ago a googol was an obscure, unimaginable concept: the number one followed by 100 zeros.

Labour's platform and its prospects are obscure. It faces multiple and vertiginous uncertainties.

A very few clips break out and become wildly popular, but most remain obscure and are simply shared among a few friends.

If you're going to say something obscure, why not use an obscure language?

Amber was an obscure artist before she release the first album.

It was not that those causes were so obscure that it required exceptional intelligence to perceive them.

the larger the obscure ratio is, the less the spatial correlation property of partially annular beams is affected by the turbulence.

bracts imbricate or sometimes basal ones connate into concentric rings, sometimes triangular, appressed, obscure.

They were little Easter Egg funny one-liners that would appear only when you pressed obscure combinations of keys.

Use them to find obscure or common facts, add data to a chart, look up the meaning of a word, and more.

The discovery of the limiting factor or factors may not be easy, since they are often obscure.

You don't need to look that far. You don't discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things.

Tend to obscure rather than illuminate the word of god?

It held its sittings in a tumbledown building in an obscure Calcutta lane.